FFConvert - multimedia converter

[mama21mama]

[GaRailroader]

FFConvert works beautifully on my Fluppy 10 installation to convert a flac file to MP3. On the same machine when I try to do the same task using ffmpeg I get an error for unknown encoder libmp3lame. What would the ffmpeg command look like that FFConvert is creating? Any help is greatly appreciated.

Pat

[trapster]

Try mp3lame instead of libmp3lame

[GaRailroader]

Try mp3lame instead of libmp3lame

I tried that and got the same message.

Pat

[ravensrest]

I reported this in the Wary 5.0-final bug report, but that appears to be the wrong spot, so I'll retry here in the hopes someone can answer.

I can't seem to get FFConvert multimedia converter in Wary 5.0 to produce playable files. If I try to select and convert any ogg file (say Magic-Pilot.ogg) to an mp3 file using ffconvert, a file approximately 2.4 meg long is produced, but it lasts only a few milliseconds and is not recognizable. The command line produced by ffconvert is:

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ffmpeg -i "/data/music/1970s/Magic-Pilot.ogg" -y -f mp3  -acodec libvorbis -ab 128k    "/data/Magic-Pilot.mp3"

If I just convert using ffmpeg directly using either of these two statements from the command line:

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ffmpeg -i "/data/music/1970s/Magic-Pilot.ogg" -ab 128k "/data/magicpilot.mp3"
ffmpeg -i /data/music/1970s/Magic-Pilot.ogg -ab 128k /data/magicpilot.mp3

a 2.7 meg mp3 file is produced that plays correctly in any mp3 player I have tried.

What is wrong?

[GaRailroader]

can't seem to get FFConvert multimedia converter in Wary 5.0 to produce playable files. If I try to select and convert any ogg file (say Magic-Pilot.ogg) to an mp3 file using ffconvert, a file approximately 2.4 meg long is produced, but it lasts only a few milliseconds and is not recognizable. The command line produced by ffconvert is:

ravensrest: Sorry I am no help with your problem. How are you able to determine what the command line that ffconvert generates is?

Pat

[ravensrest]

GaRailroader, there are two ways I know of to see the command FFConvert generates. First, while it is converting it creates a file "ffconvert..*.sh" in the /tmp/directory. Open this as a text file to see the command line. Second, if you run ffconvert in a terminal it will print the command to the terminal.
BS

[shinobar]

I can't seem to get FFConvert multimedia converter in Wary 5.0 to produce playable files. If I try to select and convert any ogg file (say Magic-Pilot.ogg) to an mp3 file using ffconvert, a file approximately 2.4 meg long is produced, but it lasts only a few milliseconds and is not recognizable. The command line produced by ffconvert is:

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ffmpeg -i "/data/music/1970s/Magic-Pilot.ogg" -y -f mp3  -acodec libvorbis -ab 128k    "/data/Magic-Pilot.mp3"

Have you loaded the preset for 'MP3 Audio'?
Or, select 'libmp3lame' for the audio codec.

[ravensrest]

Shinobar, selecting the libmp3lame codec produces a usable mp3 file. Thanks, but why wouldn't one choose the vorbis codec when handling ogg files.
BS

[ASRI éducation]

French localisation : mo & po files.
If a French speaker has time to check...

[hanzf]

Hello,

I recently found this thread and started to try ffconvert. I got a german version without being asked about that, I didn't mind because it happens to be my native language, but I didn't want these mutilated Umlaute.

edit /usr/bin/ffconvert to:

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#!/bin/sh
# FFConvert - a frontend of ffmpeg
# 20 Jul 2010 by shinobar <shino@pos.to>
export OUTPUT_CHARSET=UTF-8
VERSION="1.0"

didn't help. (see german screenshot)

You can launch ffconvert in English by

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LANG=en_US; ffconvert

Ok this worked partially, but now there are double entries in some menus, the same thing in german and in english (see english screenshot). How can that be fixed? English is ok for me because the rest of puppy is in english too, but I'd like to get rid of these redundand german entries.

[L18L]

Hallo hanzf,

I didn't want these mutilated Umlaute.

Your peispiel.png shows me that you have an outdated translation file which did NOT use UTF-8.
You can prove this if you like to by

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msgunfmt /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/ffconvert.mo

Take ffconvert.mo from http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 6&start=90 and copy it to /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES.

Or just delete /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES

[hanzf]

Your peispiel.png shows me that you have an outdated translation file which did NOT use UTF-8.

Take ffconvert.mo from http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 6&start=90 and copy it to /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES.

Or just delete /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES

thank you, the new .mo file fixed it.

I moved LC_MESSAGES to another place but then I still had these 2-language entries as shown in the example screenshot, so a pure english version seems hard to get. Strange thing.

[L18L]

thank you, the new .mo file fixed it.

I moved LC_MESSAGES to another place but then I still had these 2-language entries as shown in the example screenshot, so a pure english version seems hard to get. Strange thing.

really strange...
Not on my system. Could you try my version (ffconvert-1.0) attached?
click on it to decompress and move it into /usr/bin.

please use

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LANGUAGE=en ffconvert

not

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LANGUAGE=en; ffconvert

Thanks for reporting.

[hanzf]

Could you try my version (ffconvert-1.0) attached?
click on it to decompress and move it into /usr/bin.

please use

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LANGUAGE=en ffconvert

not

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LANGUAGE=en; ffconvert

Thanks for reporting.

Thank you.
Still the same strange thing. The german version is good now, so it's ok for everyday use, but I wonder what this 2-language effect might be.

[sheepy]

For some reason, if I try to convert files that are in another partition, it says "No files were converted" and exits.

[playdayz]

shinobar,

Will ffconvert use ffmpeg -0.8.x if it is available? The multimedia upgrade for Lucid 5.2.8 has ffmpeg 0.8.x (ie., libavcodec.so.53) in addition to the default ffmpeg 0.6 (libavcodec.so.52).

I think I see--does ffconvert use whichever libavcodec is pointed to by the libavcodec.so symlink? Thanks.

[technosaurus]

@playdayz
It is just a frontend to the ffmpeg binary and should continue to work until something drastic in ffmpeg's CLI changes. Keep in mind though that there are versioned api's now and most things get backported. So now if upstream does something stupid like changing bitrate defaults to be in kbytes instead of bytes (yeah - it broke a lot of scripts when they pulled that one) ... you can simply use the latest stable version in that series

[shinobar]

@playdayz
Recent ffmpeg is in wary-5.2, and ffmpeg 0.8 is in dpup exprimo.
FFConvert-1.0 is tested on them and works ok.

It is just a frontend to the ffmpeg binary and should continue to work until something drastic in ffmpeg's CLI changes.

Right.
ffmpeg 0.8 has changed only some advanced options which users have to manage.

[playdayz]

technosaurus wrote:
It is just a frontend to the ffmpeg binary and should continue to work until something drastic in ffmpeg's CLI changes.

Thanks technosaurus and shinobar. That is what I was asking. I didn't know if ffconvert used the libraries directly such as as libavcodec. Now that I understand, I can see that when ffmpeg is upgraded as it is the the "Super Multimedia Upgrade" for Lucid 5.2.8"that ffconvert will use the upgraded ffmpeg.